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Caltech

British  
/ ˈkælˌtɛk /

noun

  1. the California Institute of Technology

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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Still, Caltech needed a system to make sure a “handful” of dishonest applicants didn’t sneak by.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 4, 2026

Admissions officers at Caltech and nationwide stress that the majority of applications are truthful.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 4, 2026

The program has been offered at Caltech for seven years.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 30, 2026

Koch is a researcher at the Allen Institute for Brain Science and previously served as a professor at MIT and Caltech.

From Science Daily Jul. 30, 2026

At the presentation of his conference paper, Oppenheimer was run through the intellectual wringer by Robert Millikan, the notoriously prickly Caltech president.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik

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